The idea of immortality is no longer confined to science fiction and has never been more hyped. But that does not make it ...

Newman didn't deny their value, noting that fossil fuels have powered the Industrial Revolution and enabled humanity to achieve a higher standard of living, greater access to food, and improved health ...

Unlike bears, groundhogs are true hibernators. During hibernation, they don’t eat and rely on the fat stores they have built ...

Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles by major names including Maggie Aderin and Michael Pollan ...

Discover how Oliver Williamson, a Nobel laureate, transformed economic thought with Transaction Cost Economics and influenced policy beyond traditional markets.

Violeta Gordeljevic told Newsweek that even casual comments about dieting or body image can shape a child's sense of ...

The concept of space becoming the next battlefield used to sound abstract, more like science fiction than strategy.

In 2016, his close partner, AI engineer Eugenia Kuyda, rebuilt him as a chatbot, a grief experiment that later evolved into ...

Readers respond to a guest essay about the methods and reliability of science. Also: Opioid addiction; judges and presidents; ...

Getting to the truth wherever it leads is the sign of a well-functioning democracy; assaulting truth — lying or gaslighting — ...

The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences has awarded the Crafoord Prize to climate scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan. He discovered a powerful force of global warming.

Researchers believe they may have worked out why giant trevally swim upstream in the Mtentu Estuary and circle in vast ...